Research, reports and guidance on education outside the classroom and outdoor education, with a plain-English summary of each and a link to the original. New items are added every week.
The library began with Education Outside the Classroom: Applied Research Readings 2010–2017(McNatty & Boyes, University of Otago, 2017). Later items were found, summarised and checked with AI assistance using the same method: every reference is checked against the publisher's record, every summary against the published abstract, and only items rated high confidence by two independent relevance checks are published. Summaries are a guide: read the original before citing it.
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This study presents the beach as a setting for sensory, open-ended play with seaweed, stones, ash and sound, valuing learning encounters that resist predetermined outcomes.
Australian educators co-designed an assessment tool for bush kinder that helped them understand children's learning in nature more deeply.